It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
(I feel like there was a better quote, maybe in Dune Messiah, to describe the mentat’s brain clicking through millions of computations, but I had to settle with a made-up movie quote.)
Anyway, my personal take is that human brains are very good at pattern recognition, but, in this case, that results in our seeing a pattern of how many times we’ve been brilliantly prescient, and thinking that that’s meaningful, and ignoring all the predictions of Doom that turned out to be nothing.
Problem are the people who predicted 10 of the last 5 disasters. Which 5 are we supposed to upheave society for, and which 5 will sort themselves out and pass us by.
If they’ve done the research and it stands up to replication than I guess such people actually exist but how do we identify them? How do we sort Casssandra from Chicken Little?
im in the same boat, i remove all the logos i can. for me it’s not an aesthetic thing per se. it’s more that i don’t want to be endorsing a company by mere default. and i don’t like their names displayed around my home either. i don’t want to encourage any more unconscious associations with brands than i already have
contrarywise, my laptop is covered in stickers. some with labels of organizations i do endorse.
